Lynn
DeClemente|Lori Gordon|Hope
Hilton|Virginia Kleker|Megan
McCready
Ashley Neese|Susan
O'Malley|Daniel Purbrick|Kathryn
Sclavi
Megan
McCready
if i just eat them all i won't have to think about them
mixed media [2005]
Reconstructed
in detail, stands the kitchen cabinet and perpetually stocked
candy dish of M&Ms that has been a permanent fixture in the
artist’s life. McCready describes how during her visits
home, the bottomless bowl “stares at me…and I cannot
help but eat every single one thinking if they are gone and out
of sight I will not have to worry about them anymore.” Her
mother’s unspoken, habitual action is to promptly refill
the bowl with a bag of holiday M&Ms she bought on sale months
earlier. A cycle of compulsion to eat and refill exists for them,
both McCready and her mother subject to the temptation of ‘you
can have it all’. This phrase is divided and printed on
customized pink and gold M&Ms, which McCready has made available
for exhibition visitors to munch on, along with postcards detailing
the numerous variations offered by the manufacturers.
Exhibition
Text: Tanya Zimbardo